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elaborate 
  adj 
1 planned or executed with care and exactness; detailed 
2 marked by complexity, ornateness, or detail 
  vb 
3 intr; usually foll by: on  or  upon to add information or detail (to an account); expand (upon) 
4 tr to work out in detail; develop 
5 tr to make more complicated or ornate 
6 tr to produce by careful labour; create 
7 tr  (Physiol) to change (food or simple substances) into more complex substances for use in the body 
  (C16: from Latin elaborare to take pains, from laborare to toil) 
♦  elaborately  adv 
♦  elaborateness  n 
♦  elaboration  n 
♦  elaborative  adj 
♦  elaborator  n 

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